Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Batgirl #18 Review

From Evernote:

Batgirl #18 Review


4 / 5

Batgirl continues this month's trend of glancingly acknowledging Robin's death, and then moving on to the ongoing story. Frankly, that's fine with me other than the big covers DC is putting up that make it seem like the focus is going to be on Damian's passing affecting the different Bat Family members. Whatever the case, we get a continuing story of Barbara and Jim Jr. pursuing one another. Barbara's truly impressive when she pushes herself as hard as she does in stories like this, but she's at her best when she's going after Jim Jr. She's not quite perfect when it comes to her family as she can get a little distracted. I wish we'd see more of this. I can accept Batman being trained and molded into such a hard-ass that he can't see straight sometimes, but I like seeing other members of the Bat Family falter and make mistakes. It's nice to bring these characters down to Earth every now and then. I hope we see more of this in future issues. 

This issue falls in an awkward spot in that the Jim Jr. is continually being interrupted by other events in the Batman Universe. I hope that we'll get to focus on this a little more in coming months as he's always been her greatest adversary. 

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